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` GAR GOUPLING. No. 442,160. Patented Deo. 9, 1890.

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UNirEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE ll. WlLLIr-XMS, OF ALBANY, OREGON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO RICE D. MONTAGUE, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,160, dated December 9, 1890.

Application filed September 17, 1890. Serial No. 365,232. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Be itknown that I, GEORGE 1I. WILLIAMs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albany, in the county of Lynn and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Car- Coupling, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in car-couplings.

The object of the present invention is to simplify an d improve the construction of careouplings and provide a device capable of automatically coupling when the cars come together and of being readily uncoupled without necessitating a person passing between the cars.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a carcoupling constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view. 3 is atransverse sectional view. Fig. l is a detail perspective i iew of the plates.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates a coupler-head suitably secured to a car 2 and provided with a longitudinal opening 3 a-nd a slot il, located at the top of the coupler-head and communicating with the longitudinal opening 3 and extendinginward from the outer end and providing a way in which a lever 5 works backward and foiward to release and secure a link G. The lever 5 is provided with a rearwardly-extending rectangular end 13, which is pivoted back of the recesses 1 Land is provided in its front edge with an opening 1.4., which when the lever is vertical registers with the recesses ll of the plates, and the shoulder 15 of the catch 12 closes the mouth of the opening of the lever and the link G is con fined, and in order to prevent the lever accidentally moving rearward and lifting thelink from the recesses 1l and uncouplingthecarsa sprin g16 is secu red between the plates 7 and has its free end arranged to engage the lever. \Vlien the lever is thrown back to open the recesses preparatory to coupling, the spring bears against the upper edge 17 of the rearwardly-extending end, which is thrown back beyond the pivotal point, and is thereby held in that position, and when the cars come together the link o rides up the beveled front end of the catch and drops in the opening of the lever, and by its weight brings the said lever to a vertical position and closes the recess and is confined therein. The link G is held in position preparatory to coupling by lateral projections 1S, extending from the sides of the catch and preferably formed by a pin passing through the side plates and the rib.

The lever is designed to be connected to suitable means for enabling the lever to be moved rearward and brought to its position for coupling from the top and sides of the car to prevent a person passing between and endangering life and limb. Should a car be overturned, the link 6 would be twisted sufliciently to raise the lever and nncouple the cars and prevent one car derailing another.

From the foregoing description and the accompanying drawings the construction, operation, and advantages of the invention will be readily understood.

Having thus described my invention, I Claim- 1. In a car-coupling, the combination, with J IOO reeesses,the spring seen red between the plates and having its free end bearing against the lever, and the lateral proj eetions arranged at the sides of the catch and adapted to support a link, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afxed my signatu rein presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE H. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

D. H. JAMES, GEO. DICKINSON. 

